[black writing on white background, reads: "Weak? I? Directly descended from the sun?]
from https://www.are.na/block/7828295
from Anne Stevenson, Stone Milk; “The Myth of Medea”
Today I've published the second edition of the Cucumber Salad Weekly newsletter! 🥒 It features an essay called "A Critique of Centralised Social Media Platforms" that I was very excited to write: https://buttondown.email/cucumbersalad/archive/weekly-cucumber-salad-2/
instead, I found some screenshots of the projects from the wayback machine, and wrote some short text about the projects
it felt good to revisit and give some love to the past and past version of myself in this small way
change is constant,
different moments are connected in unexpected ways,
curious what will be happening seven years from now
yesterday I updated my personal website to fix my three oldest projects, from 2015, that had broken links because they were deployed to a server that hasn't been running in years
https://mfowler.info/work/howdoispeak_archive - an app which analyzes the words you use in your text messages and tells you things about yourself
https://mfowler.info/work/the_capitalist_tshirt - a website where you can pay to have a number printed on a shirt, framed print, or booty shorts, showing how much you paid for it
https://mfowler.info/work/truespeak - a website where you you can come out to the world as yourself by uploading your text message history to a publicly viewable page
the links were broken because they were originally deployed to AWS and a few years ago I deleted by AWS account
I kept thinking that someday I might spin up the server again to run the projects somewhere again and properly archive the projects, but yesterday, after a few years, I realized that was never going to happen
enjoyed imagining fun/interesting events or connections I "missed" due to missed messages etc. as positive indicators of my systems supporting me with space to rest and helping me to cultivate peace and focus for the things which are already in my life and which already often feel like too much to give my full presence and attention to
Videogrep 2.0 is out!
Here's a tutorial about how you can use it to automatically make supercuts on the command line: https://lav.io/notes/videogrep-tutorial/
Hey Fedi, do you know if there is a federated (perhaps even #ActivityPub-powered) cooking recipe hosting service? If not, let's 👏 make 👏 this 👏 happen!
I hate modern recipe websites. All of them are full with ads and tracking. The leading recipe hosting in my country loads over 30 different trackers, and that's excluding the ads!
accidentally logged on to bandcamp.com and now I am a dj
https://drumpoetcommunity.bandcamp.com/track/manuel-tur-bubble-wrap-2
some forgotten cereal in the pantry had some moths in it,
which on one level seems kind of gross,
but also maybe its fine
(a short poem)
"to depend on each other is to become infrastructure"
- @aliceyuanzhang
Invitation For P4P Rust Learning Group
https://rust.commoninternet.net/
(invitation in website form)
for any folks who share dreams of non-extractive infrastructure, and are working in Rust, or interested in learning about Rust,
I started a public matrix channel with @glyph,
I hope it can be a space for sharing rust confusions, asking questions, sharing resources, encouraging each other's work and deepening our understanding of the language
if you're interested, you can join via this link,
https://matrix.to/#/%23p4p-rust-learning-group:matrix.org
beginners and experts both welcome (questions and guidance both appreciated)
there are no time requirements for joining, if you join feel free to participate whenever you have energy and availability
the term p4p means "peer for peer", and comes from the scuttlebutt community
Oh! Hello world! Thanks @notplants for the invite to sunbeam.city! Joining a Mastodon instance feels like something I should have done long ago. It's nice to be here 🥰
experiments in online gardening
mycology, ayurveda, queer poetry
all labels are temporary